gEDA-dev: Can't route

Stephen Williams steve at icarus.com
Sun Jul 15 11:58:49 EDT 2007


DJ Delorie wrote:

> In theory, via-in-pad lets you bring an extra row out on the top
> layer.  It might mean the difference between 12 and 14 layers.

Also, if you avoid masking the bottom side of the via, you suddenly
have scope access to every pad of the BGA, which I've found to be
amazingly useful in my day-job work. (No I didn't make those boards,
and no they were not done with PCB.)

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